What Do We Want From Primary Care, Part Iii

What's a government to do, once it knows what it wants to do? Primary care reform was never going to be easy. No matter what order the...

What Do We Want From Primary Care, Part Ii

It's Christmas time, so why not put our wish list in writing? As I argued in my last post , reforming Canada's primary health car...

What Do We Want From Primary Care, Part I

Forget the plans and even the implementation plans. There's a long list of priorities, and those priorities have yet to be prioritized. ...

Doctors, Taxes, Government: What's The Endgame?

The corporate tax dustup is the just the latest in a long string of conflicts over the place of doctors in Canadian society. It dates back d...

Why Medicine Can't Be Managed

If twenty-odd years of administrative meddling should have taught us anything, it's that all the plans in the world for medicine and hea...

Medicine And The Limits Of Politics

The obligations on the medical profession do not extend to the ideology or platform of any political party. It's a big week for the C...

Frustrated, Incorporated

Put me out of my misery. At the dawn of the millennium, when I finished my medical pelatihan and entered independent practice, I was st...

A New Day For The Oma!

Don't you dare be sour! Clap and feel the power! It's tempting to declare the general meeting of the Ontario Medical Associatio...